Nikolai Sleptsov

Nikolai Pavlovich Sleptsov (6 December 1815-10 December 1851) was a Major-General in the Imperial Russian Army during the Caucasian War. He was killed in action in 1851, and he became a hero among his fellow Cossacks.

Biography
Nikolai Pavlovich Sleptsov was born in Kologrivovka, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire on 6 December 1815, and he was commissioned into the Imperial Russian Army as an ensign in the Lithuanian Life Guards Regiment in 1837. In 1842, he was appointed adjutant to the Chief of Staff of the Separate Caucasian Corps, and he fought against the rebellious North Caucasians in the Caucasian War. On 19 January 1850, he was awarded the Order of St. George. On 10 December 1851, while leading 200 Cossacks on the banks of the Gekhi River, he was ambushed by Imam Shamil's guerrillas, and he was mortally wounded in the chest and died half an hour later. He was hailed as a hero by the Cossacks, and the 1st General Sleptsov's Sunzha-Vladikavkaz Regiment was named in his honor.